Keepsake box for my daughter

I made this box for my 3 year old daughter to hold her first piece of jewelry. It is made from solid purpleheart with ebony and maple on the accent strips on top and maple “legs”. It is my first attempt at building a box as well as my first attempt at doing a French polish and my first time mortising for quadrant hinges and a lock. for some reason I decided to do very small mortise and tenon joints to connect the sides to the maple legs (much more trouble than it was worth). Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it came out, although the tiny quadrant hinges and lock were a bit of a challenge for me.

Gene,Thanks for the compliment. I only went all out because it was a pretty small project. This was also the first project that I completed (aside from home improvement stuff) since High school woodshop about 20 years ago. I found that cutting out the channel for the curved part of the hinge was tough. I didn’t really do much research ahead of time, just thought the quadrant hinges looked nice so I went with them. I had particular trouble because of the way I did the maple legs. I had to mortise out the channel partly in the purpleheart and partly in the back legs because of the placement of the hinges. It took me a bit of fiddling, but I managed to get them done so that they work smoothly.